Lakhdar Brahimi, the Syria mediator for the United Nations, is scheduled to arrive in Tehran on Sunday to urge Iran to assist in peace talks on Syria. Credit Stan Honda/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. Continue reading the main story. Continue ...

Pascal Simbikangwa, a former intelligence officer, was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Credit Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story Share This Page.

DAKAR, Senegal — Militants suspected of being members of the group Boko Haram carried out a daring daylight raid early Friday on a heavily guarded military prison in northern Nigeria, freeing some of their comrades but also suffering heavy losses, ...

Human immunodeficiency virus, center. Lesbian transmission of H.I.V. was reported Thursday. Credit Photo Researchers Inc. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story. Advertising. Continue reading the main story Share This Page.

BERLIN — Uli Hoeness, long one of Germany's most beloved soccer stars, said Friday that he would resign his post as president of the country's most storied team, Bayern Munich, and would not appeal his sentence of three and a half years in prison for ...

Uli Hoeness, the president of the European champion soccer club Bayern Munich, was convicted Thursday of tax evasion and sentenced to three and a half years in prison after a four-day trial that had consumed the country. The news even drowned out ...

Kevin Anderson upset the Australian Open champion Stanislas Wawrinka, 7-6 (1), 4-6, 6-1, in the fourth round of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif., joining Milos Raonic in sending home two top-10 players. Anderson advanced to the quarterfinals ...

HOUSTON — A tanker that had been sitting for three days in a Libyan port controlled by a regional militia has what every refinery in Europe wants: some of the highest quality oil in the world, so sweet it needs little refining to process into high-grade fuel.

WASHINGTON — Watching a seat-back display with a plane-shaped icon gliding across the map, it is easy to forget that in true scale, the airplane is very small and the route very large. As the hours and days drag by with no trace of the Malaysia Airlines flight ...

PARIS — The International Criminal Court on Friday convicted a militia leader from the Democratic Republic of Congo in an attack on a Congolese village in 2003 in which more than 200 people were shot and hacked to death, and women were raped and ...

BOSTON — Researchers are reporting that injections of long-lasting AIDS drugs protected monkeys for weeks against infection — a finding that could lead to a major breakthrough in preventing the disease in humans. Two studies by different laboratory ...

The best picture victory by “12 Years a Slave” at the 86th Academy Awards finally handed cinema's most prestigious prize to a movie by a black filmmaker, in this case, the British-born Steve McQueen. But the triumph, which found Mr. McQueen dancing ...

Nigerians gathered around a crater created by a car bombing in Maiduguri, where a series of blasts on Saturday killed dozens. Credit Reuters. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story Share This ...

Francesco Schettino, the captain of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, went back aboard as part of his trial. Credit Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story Share This Page.

NEW DELHI — India's naval chief resigned on Wednesday after a Russian-made Indian submarine caught fire off the coast of Mumbai, injuring seven officers and leaving two missing. It was the 10th accident involving an Indian warship in seven months.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — THE conventional wisdom about Syria is that nothing can be done. It is said that military action would be either perverse — bringing the jihadists in the opposition to power — or futile, failing to tip the balance against the government of ...

Serhii Plokhii is a professor of history and the director of the Ukraine Research Institute at Harvard University. He is the author of "The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union," which will be available in May. Updated February 25, 2014, 6:12 PM.

Oumou Balde, 4, left, with her teacher, Jacqualine Sanchez, in a nutrition program in New York. Credit Seth Wenig/Associated Press. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story Share This Page.

ROME — Pope Francis announced a major restructuring of the Vatican's outdated administrative and economic bureaucracy on Monday as he established a new agency to oversee budgets and financial planning and also created a powerful auditor-general ...

The hotel were Joaquín Guzmán Loera was arrested, the Miramar, attracted bystanders on Sunday, many of whom took photos. Kirsten Luce for The New York Times. MAZATLÁN, Mexico — They reacted here with utter disbelief. Joaquín Guzmán Loera, El ...